James Adams Hutchinson, London, 1994. I first noticed James Adams when he began running some of the MOD’s disinformation lines about Colin Wallace and Fred Holroyd in 19867. For a while I collected articles by him which seemed to show the traces of Whitehall briefings. Then I stopped: what was I going to do […]
[…] take seriously, do not trust him. Ben-Menashe illustrates a peculiar modern problem. These days, when the state sees a story like the October Surprise (or the Wallace/ Holroyd allegations) beginning to be taken seriously, it will launch disinformation and disinformation agents to muddy the pool and discredit the story and/or any genuine sources. It […]
[…] which have attracted conspiracy theories. The Andrew piece, I guess, was supposed to discredit Hugh Thomas in the way intended by the Independent attack on Wallace and Holroyd. Alas for Andrew’s chums in the British state, as with the Wallace/Holroyd case, too many people know enough about the case for this to work in […]
This began as a review of Deacon’s Truth Twisters by David Teacher, and grew as we both saw bits and pieces we could add to it. Richard Deacon’s The Truth Twisters (McDonald, London 1987: Futura, London 1988) is a classic of Western disinformation purporting to describe Soviet disinformation. Deacon lines up all our favourite state […]
Introduction Intelligence officers who blow the whistle get attacked by their erstwhile employers. Agee, Stockwell, Marchetti,Wallace, Holroyd, Jock Kane, Cathy Massiter – they all have variously suffered for their decision to go public. Their allegations and their characters are rubbished; operations are mounted to discredit them and disrupt their lives – and worse. Gordon […]
Ken Livingstone MP, has been putting dozens and dozens of questions to our state about the cases and allegations of Fred Holroyd and Colin Wallace, those bits of the secret state you are allowed to ask questions about, Northern Ireland, psy ops and so on. Putting down such questions is a fairly dispiriting business. […]
[…] mentioned by Hollingsworth in his piece about Parliament and spooks is the curious case of Ken Livingstone’s parliamentary questions. In 1987/8, fed by Colin Wallace and Fred Holroyd via Livingstone’s then (unpaid) researcher Neil Grant, new (1987) MP Ken Livingstone put down hundreds of written questions in the House of Commons about the war […]
[…] lesser extent, the Liberal Party); that, in short, Harold Wilson’s charges against the British ‘secret state’ made in 1976 were correct and not mere paranoia. Captain Fred Holroyd, former Special Military Intelligence Unit Officer in Northern Ireland, and Colin Wallace, former Senior Information Officer in the psy ops unit, Information Policy, became the victims […]
[…] members of this society get screwed because they know something the secret state would rather the rest of us didn’t now. The secret state’s response to Fred Holroyd, Colin Wallace, John Burnes, Harold Smith, and most recently Shayler and Tomlinson, is always the same: never mind the content of what they are saying; never […]
[…] was offered the chance to go and work with Anthony Summers on what became the book Honeytrap – and more or less gave up on the Wallace- Holroyd material. I thus inherited his ongoing correspondence with Colin Wallace and Fred Holroyd and wrote Lobster 11. (Steve’s research formed much of the appendices). After issue […]
